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By Emeka Mamah
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
KADUNA- FIFTY two policemen in Kaduna state have petitioned the Inspector General of Police [IGP], Mr Tafa Balogun alleging a multi-million fraud in the state police command.The petitioners led by one Inspector David Baraya said that the fraud was on form of rents deducted from salaries of policemen in the state in the last 20 years which were neither recruited to the Federal Mortgage Bank [FMB] or the Federal Ministry of Housing [their landlord] as required by law.
They therefore urged Mr. Balogun to investigate the matter with a view to remedying the situation. In the petition which was signed by their lawyer, Yohana Madaki, the policemen stressed that they were allocated official quarters at the Shagari Low Cost Housing Units about 20 years ago, adding that although the rents to the houses were being deducted monthly from their salaries, such deductions were not remitted to appropriate quarters leading to threats to eject them by their landlords.The petition entitled “Threat of ejection from quarters [of] 52 police officers occupying Shagari Low Cost Houses, Barnawa Kaduna State by the Kaduna State Police Command” read in part: “Since our clients moved into the aforesaid houses in 1984, their salary, depending on their income is deducted every month by the state police command as rents.
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